Published “<i>Planck</i> 2018 results” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 13,431 times.
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Ernest Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron. He is known for his work on uranium-isotope separation for the Manhattan Project, as well as for founding the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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science · American physicist (1901–1958) · physicist · nuclear physicist · university teacher · also Ernest Lawrence, Lawrence
Born 8 August 1901 · Died 27 August 1958 · Q169577
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2020· 2 entries
Published “Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019” in Journal of the American College of Cardiology — cited 10,312 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “<i>Planck</i>2015 results” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 9,891 times.
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1982).
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1968· 1 entry
The Lawrence Hall of Science public science education center was established in his honor
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1958· 2 entries
Died 1958-08-27.
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Awarded Sylvanus Thayer Award (1958).
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1957· 2 entries
Awarded Enrico Fermi Award for cyclotron (1957).
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Published “Radiological Assessment of Osteo-Arthrosis” in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases — cited 10,485 times.
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1952· 1 entry
Won Faraday Medal (1952).
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1951· 1 entry
Awarded William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement (1951).
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1948· 2 entries
And some board members wished to divest the university of the responsibility for running a site outside California
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And was the first recipient of the Sylvanus Thayer Award by the US Military Academy in 1958
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1946· 2 entries
Asked the Manhattan Project for over $2 million for research at the Radiation Laboratory (equivalent to $24,000,000 in 2024)
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The Manhattan Project spent $7 on physics at the University of California for every dollar spent by the university
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1945· 2 entries
Lawrence observed the Trinity nuclear test of the first atomic bomb with Chadwick and Charles A
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Awarded Silliman Memorial Lectures (1945).
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1942· 1 entry
Won Holley Medal (1942).
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1941· 1 entry
Molly's sister Elsie married Edwin McMillan, who would go on to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951 with Glenn T
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1940· 2 entries
Won Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize (1940).
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In Berkeley, California, due to World War II, in the auditorium of Wheeler Hall on the campus of the university
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1939· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1939).
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1938· 1 entry
Awarded Comstock Prize in Physics (1938).
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1937· 3 entries
Won Hughes Medal (1937).
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Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1937).
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The Comstock Prize in Physics in 1938, the Duddell Medal and Prize in 1940, the Holley Medal in 1942, the Medal for Merit in 1946, the William Procter Prize in 1951, Faraday Medal in 1952, and the Enrico Fermi Award from
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1936· 2 entries
With Lawrence formally appointed its director, with a full-time assistant director, and the university agreed to make $20,000 a year available for its research activities (equivalent to $350,000 in 2024)
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With Lawrence as its director
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1934· 2 entries
And both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society in 1937
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Which he assigned to the Research Corporation, a private foundation that funded much of Lawrence's early work
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1932· 1 entry
For which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1935
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1931· 1 entry
Got 80,000-electron volt protons spinning around
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1929· 1 entry
Lawrence glanced over a journal article by Rolf Widerøe, and was intrigued by one of the diagrams
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1928· 1 entry
Was hired as an associate professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, becoming the youngest full professor there two years later
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1926· 2 entries
And 1927, Lawrence received offers of assistant professorships from the University of Washington in Seattle and the University of California at a salary of $3,500 per annum (equivalent to $64,900 in 2025)
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And became engaged in 1931, and were married on May 14, 1932, at Trinity Church on the Green in New Haven, Connecticut
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1925· 1 entry
As a National Research Fellow, writing his doctoral thesis on the photoelectric effect in potassium vapor
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1923· 1 entry
Under the supervision of William Francis Gray Swann
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1919· 1 entry
The New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford had fired alpha particles into nitrogen and had succeeded in knocking protons out of some of the nuclei
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1901· 1 entry
Born 1901-08-08.
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